Wire-working implement.



No. 798,090. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905. J. R. PAYNE.

WIRE WORKING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30,1905.

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YNTTED STATES Patented June 27, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. PAYNE, OF FREEDOh-l, INDIANA, ASSlG-NOR OF ONF-HALF TO JOSEPH L. PAYNE, OF HARRISBURII, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-WORKING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,090, dated June 27, 1905.

Application filed March 30, 1905. Serial No. 252,912.

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Be it known that I, Jonx R. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freedom, in

the county of Owen and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful ireorking Implement, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire-working tools, and has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in such devices as to enable the convenient handling thereof, particularly in working upon wire fences, to stretch, splice, cut, and otherwise handle the runner-wires in a simple and efficient manner.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accom panying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of an implement embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of one end portion thereof.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in both ligures of the drawings.

The present implement includes a pair of handle members 1 and 2, which are intermediately pivoted, as at 3, so as to swing across one anotherin parallelism, the handle member 2 having its rear end projected beyond the member 1 and provided with a ring or link 1, loosely engaging a perforation in the end of the member. The member 1 extends a suitable distance in front of the member 2, and this extended portion is laterally enlarged, as at 5, throughout its length, with its rear end formed into a cam-shoulder 6, with which the front end T of the member 2 is designed to cooperate to form wire-clamping members or jaws. The jaw-terminal T of the member 2 is disposed obliquely across said member, and a prong or finger 8 projects slightly beyond and overhangs the jaw-terminal 7 in cooperative relation with a similar prong or projection 9 upon the outer face of the shoulder 6. Shear-blades 10 and 11 are carried by the inner faces of the members 1 and 2 between the pivotal connection 3 and the shoulder 6, the projecting edges of the blades being sharpened and set obliquely across the device. A substantially L-shaped slot 12 intersects that face of the enlarged portion 5 which carries the prong or projection 9, and in the longitudinal branch of this slot is pivoted a wireclamping cam 13, cooperating with the outer end of the slot to clamp a wire thereagainst, said cam being provided with a handle or linger-piece 1st. The outer terminal of the enlargement 5 is rounded or beveled, as at 15, and bifurcated or forked to form a claw 16.

Among the many uses to which the present implement may be put will be mentioned the following: The claw 16 may be employed for d rawingnails, tacks, &c. Either of the wireclamping devices may be engaged with a runner-wire and the claw end of the implement applied to a post as a fulcrum and the device then used as a lever to stretch the wire. The adjacent ends of the broken wire may be engaged with the respective wire-clamping devices and then the implement turned around the wire as an axis, so as to intertwist the wires, and thereby connect the same. \Vhere a wire is slack or loose between a pair of posts, the prongs or projections 8 and 9 may be engaged over the same and the implement then twisted in a plane substantially parallel with the wire, so as to twist a loop therein for taking up the looseness or slack. \Vhen stretching a wire with the device used as a lever, the ring or link t will be found useful for engagement by a rope or piece of wire to tie the adjacent end of the lever to a post, so as to hold the wire in its stretched condition while being seen red to the fence-posts.

Having fully described the invention, what is claimed is-- 1. An implement ofthe class described comprising a pair of pivotally-connected handle members one of which is projected beyond the other and has its projected portion laterally enlarged to form a shoulder cooperating with the inner end of the other handle member to produce aWire-clamp, the enlarged portion of the first-mentioned handle member being provided with asubstantially L-shaped slot intersecting one face and opposite edges thereof, and a pivotal wire clamping member mounted in the longitudinal branch of the slot and Working in cooperative relation with the end wall of said branch at the transverse branch of the slot.

2. An implement of the class described comprising pivottlly-connected handle members one of which is projected in front of the other and laterally enlarged with the rear end of the enlargement cooperating with the forward 

